The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock: Animated

An animated adaption of T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". This was created as an honors capstone project at Rutgers University in the Fall and Spring 2011/2012 semesters, accompanied by a paper explicating the poem and justifying my creative choices. The poem has been abridged, which may anger purists. Here's a link to the paper if you care to read why certain stanzas were taken out, though it was mostly an issue of time: www.scribd.com/doc/93368902/Pr...
Enjoy!

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  • @zmm88
    @zmm8810 жыл бұрын

    You cut out the best part: "I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker/ and I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker" Despite that, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Bravo!

  • @tmac8892
    @tmac88929 жыл бұрын

    left out the best line--I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas. word to all yalls mothers.

  • @mikelheron20

    @mikelheron20

    8 жыл бұрын

    Woody Allen was quite rightly shot for that line.

  • @noryie4242

    @noryie4242

    5 жыл бұрын

    yeah, what's up with that?

  • @angelamcglynn
    @angelamcglynn12 жыл бұрын

    This is beautifully drawn and incredibly creative - it absolutely captures the tone of the poem! There are so many parts - the face in the cup, the aging Prufrock, the mermaid scene, Prufrock standing in the universe, etc. - all are nothing less than brilliant!

  • @GlitchLich589
    @GlitchLich5897 жыл бұрын

    I loved the outro and the disturbance of the universe scene. It was a beautiful animation especially for a poem that mostly takes place inside of someone's mind.

  • @poesho
    @poesho8 жыл бұрын

    This is a really nice animation! Great job of interpreting the poem this way :)

  • @angelamcglynn
    @angelamcglynn12 жыл бұрын

    I was struck by the beauty and creativity of the animated version of Prufrock. Having now read the thesis explicating the poem, I am in awe of the whole project. The thesis is an eloquent analysis!

  • @LozzySullivan
    @LozzySullivan11 жыл бұрын

    I signed into youtube JUST to like this, what a brilliant animation! Really, really excellent!

  • @nashmo4610
    @nashmo46109 жыл бұрын

    when I read these lines, I started shivering: "[But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!] Is it perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?

  • @flourishes4u
    @flourishes4u4 жыл бұрын

    I think it’s incredibly difficult to articulate and visualise fully some parts of this poem so well done, good job.

  • @homefreylf
    @homefreylf12 жыл бұрын

    This is stunning! I love the face in the coffee cup- beautiful.

  • @meryton
    @meryton5 жыл бұрын

    This is brilliant! Thank you so much.

  • @shaibaliqbal
    @shaibaliqbal10 жыл бұрын

    This really is rather lovely.. thank you.

  • @AimeeColeman
    @AimeeColeman6 жыл бұрын

    it left all the best lines 'let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys'

  • @bruceramsey5489
    @bruceramsey54897 жыл бұрын

    Not the complete poem, but, a good idea of what it's all about.

  • @shepclair
    @shepclair10 жыл бұрын

    Loved this! Thank you.

  • @MB-eu4ty
    @MB-eu4ty5 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful. Thank you!!!

  • @blixsnix792
    @blixsnix79211 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! Excellent.

  • @pranto6084
    @pranto60843 ай бұрын

    Loved it

  • @ThomasBaxter
    @ThomasBaxter8 жыл бұрын

    Automatic like for the portrayal of the yellow smoke as a feline

  • @amartya6544
    @amartya65445 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE IT

  • @arthurstarbuck6519
    @arthurstarbuck651910 жыл бұрын

    I find the criticisms of this video tedious and insidious

  • @johnathandelrio9358

    @johnathandelrio9358

    9 жыл бұрын

    This is such an inside joke.

  • @thenorthernwall3593

    @thenorthernwall3593

    8 жыл бұрын

    do they lead to an overwhelming question?

  • @bethaniemckinny

    @bethaniemckinny

    5 жыл бұрын

    i love this

  • @181federer
    @181federer10 жыл бұрын

    The best part is "I should have been a pair of ragged claws/scuttling across the floors of silent seas," but it's left out of the video. That's a shame. That's like leaving out the "To be or not to be" monologue in Hamlet.

  • @brianreed2315
    @brianreed231510 жыл бұрын

    Very good!

  • @jillandrews882
    @jillandrews8822 ай бұрын

    I really prefer picturing it myself in my head.

  • @johnb6264
    @johnb626410 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic

  • @lacanm1554
    @lacanm15546 жыл бұрын

    This guy spits bars

  • @GraziaApisa
    @GraziaApisa11 жыл бұрын

    Molto bello ..affascinante

  • @samdiesel2000
    @samdiesel20006 жыл бұрын

    Very enchanting

  • @ayeshaakber3996
    @ayeshaakber3996 Жыл бұрын

    A nostalgia

  • @shrutijain9986
    @shrutijain99862 жыл бұрын

    Can someone explain what is going in this poem?

  • @grass-ifrass
    @grass-ifrass8 жыл бұрын

    Hello! May I use this video as a reference in an essay?

  • @ohyuminify
    @ohyuminify11 жыл бұрын

    ^-^ good godd!! Thanks

  • @Inmys0litude
    @Inmys0litude7 жыл бұрын

    I don't get this poem someone help pls

  • @DarkAngelEU

    @DarkAngelEU

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's inside someone's mind, from what I presume a middle or upper class man who is fed up with all the formalities his life is filled with. It is so formal, in fact, that he can even imagine himself growing old and dying because that's just another tradition within these classes.

  • @mavelous1763

    @mavelous1763

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s about the randomness and limits to human existence in a cold universe…… either that, or just a bad case of impotence

  • @FyreDrac
    @FyreDrac7 жыл бұрын

    Well done *Claps Loudly*

  • @funfan2345

    @funfan2345

    6 жыл бұрын

    is that meant to be sarcastic?

  • @zanluo9317
    @zanluo93174 жыл бұрын

    the voice make me laugh so hard

  • @yebyo
    @yebyo10 жыл бұрын

    wherw can i find the thesis?

  • @Ccs1989

    @Ccs1989

    10 жыл бұрын

    Link is in the video description.

  • @johnparadise3134
    @johnparadise313411 жыл бұрын

    of I mean of!!*sighs*

  • @iammrig
    @iammrig5 жыл бұрын

    Prude in a frock= Prufrock

  • @hp6653
    @hp66536 жыл бұрын

    Hope this would help me in exam !

  • @suparna5224
    @suparna52246 жыл бұрын

    no doubt it's just awesome...but u have cut some parts..but that doesn't mean u ruined it....!!! good job...👍👍

  • @johnparadise3134
    @johnparadise313411 жыл бұрын

    You cut out some if the poem. No "ragged claws" for example.

  • @dzalgerie6409
    @dzalgerie64096 жыл бұрын

    كتير حلو

  • @DavidDuVivier
    @DavidDuVivier3 жыл бұрын

    Inexplicable, and very sad, that you have edited out some of the most beautiful passages of this poem, to whit: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." Here the full original recorded performance by T.S. Eliot himself: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHWDlbONhZe2qrw.html

  • @Alistplay
    @Alistplay6 жыл бұрын

    The guy reading it sounds like they're about to drop dead.

  • @zdunas23

    @zdunas23

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its actually Eliot himself

  • @TheDJay72
    @TheDJay7211 жыл бұрын

    One of my fav poems, nice try but the animations and artwork just kind of killed it. Try again

  • @MrGiantOranges
    @MrGiantOranges11 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone tell me what it means when he says "till human voices wake us and we drown"?

  • @michaelpatterson5811

    @michaelpatterson5811

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you never been woken from your dreams by a living voice; and then drowned in your own unreality?

  • @julybanda
    @julybanda8 жыл бұрын

    Listen out my vids that I set up!

  • @ashleydunbaresq.615
    @ashleydunbaresq.61510 жыл бұрын

    "There will be time to murder and create" ??

  • @tailsfox45

    @tailsfox45

    8 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I think that part is just T.S. Eliot juxtaposing life and death/positivity and negativity

  • @ashleydunbaresq.615

    @ashleydunbaresq.615

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tim Lesher I meant that it's missing from this reading of the poem

  • @blinkxo6131
    @blinkxo61318 жыл бұрын

    He skipped some lines

  • @ricoamado1785
    @ricoamado17854 жыл бұрын

    যেমন কবিতা তেমন আবৃত্তি! আজাইরা।

  • @MrKanyefish
    @MrKanyefish11 жыл бұрын

    sexy video!!!

  • @joelarosa8548
    @joelarosa85488 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @shredderofpaper
    @shredderofpaper12 жыл бұрын

    Firs... Damn it.

  • @810005515
    @81000551511 жыл бұрын

    so confusing...

  • @markkm
    @markkm12 жыл бұрын

    first

  • @TopStrikerMaverick
    @TopStrikerMaverick5 жыл бұрын

    Change the voice for everyone’s sake.

  • @alaaaaa4132

    @alaaaaa4132

    5 жыл бұрын

    No way, I love it this way.

  • @Jongleurs1
    @Jongleurs110 жыл бұрын

    How can anybody so lack the aesthetic cognition to (a) think animating Prufrock was a good idea, and (b) think that this is the form it ought to take, with actual floating metaphors et al?

  • @Ccs1989

    @Ccs1989

    10 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your valuable insight.

  • @spherical89

    @spherical89

    10 жыл бұрын

    It may not be particularily artistic, but it really helped me, as a non-native speaker of English struggling with Eliot, to visualize all the different metaphors in the poem, and that's a really useful thing to do - as opposed to bitching in yt comments. So there.

  • @Jackinleeds01

    @Jackinleeds01

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ccs1989 I thought it was an excellent interpretation, it's more or less what I imagined when reading it. Much better quality than the animated version of howl from the James Franco film which I thought was terrible. I'm glad that you used the original Elliott recording, his voice creates such a haunting atmosphere.

  • @Rocket_Man.
    @Rocket_Man.11 жыл бұрын

    Was he talking about KFC or something?

  • @rey2008rocks
    @rey2008rocks10 жыл бұрын

    what the hell! you cut out the poem!! you ruined it!! -_-

  • @gitrekt4822
    @gitrekt482210 жыл бұрын

    Wtf is this?

  • @funfan2345

    @funfan2345

    6 жыл бұрын

    it's a poem.

  • @HEYyouGUYYYSSS
    @HEYyouGUYYYSSS11 жыл бұрын

    this was supposed to be in New York since this is a poem is in protest of the Jazz Age (1920's) this is an inaccurate animation

  • @danielscherer9262

    @danielscherer9262

    3 жыл бұрын

    ok brandon